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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:37:11 +0200
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Igor Pechtchanski

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
--8<--
> > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming 
> task and then
> > "append" the paging later.
> >
> > The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it
> >  - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for.

> 
> $ echo > list.md5; find -type f | xargs md5sum -b >> list.md5 2>&1 &
> [1] 5060
> $ wait %1; cat TaskDone.wav >/dev/dsp
> 
> HTH,
> 	Igor

 Ahh... job-handling, ofcourse!  Thanks!

NEWBIE? FYI:
 $ man bash
 /JOB CONTROL
 $ help wait
 $ help jobs

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E
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